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Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign that Decided the Civil War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 815min

In 1862 Ulysses S. Grant achieved what President Lincoln had sought since the start of the War: the first decisive Union victory. Fought on the western edge of the theater, the Forts Henry and Donelson campaign was a gruesome omen of what was to come. Grant, until then an obscure brigadier general with a reputation for drink, became the fighting man of the hour, earning the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Grant for his relentless pounding of the Confederates. But he had a match in ruthlessness in Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest, cavalry commander in the Henry and Donelson campaign, proved a counterweight to Grant: quick and nimble to the former's steady plodding, a ruthless slaveholder and future KKK Grand Wizard to Grant's abolitionism.Hurst captures the battle of these two great men and armies in all its destructive glory. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Weiner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/002295/bk_blak_002295_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Quarterly Essay 44: Man Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 152min

In QE44, Andrew Charlton exposes the rift that will shape our future progress versus planet; rich versus poor. Who, then, will save us? Charlton shows there are two leading candidates: economists and environmentalists. Each says they know what is best for our grandchildren. Yet environmentalists see economists as merchants of greed with a blind faith in markets. And economists see environmentalism as an indulgence for the middle class of richer nations; those who enjoy the lifestyle afforded by economic growth, but take its source for granted. In Australia, this battle has plunged our politics into one of its most tumultuous periods, splitting the business community; driving a wedge between the left and right of the Liberal Party; separating Labor's working-class from its progressive supporters; propelling the rise of the Greens and stirring up their counterweight in rural protest. Across the globe, economists and environmentalists vie over who has the right response to climate change, population, or food security issues. In this groundbreaking essay Charlton argues that our descendants will only thank us if we find a way to preserve both the natural world and human progress. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grant Cartwright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001265/bk_boli_001265_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Interesting Times (eBook, ePUB)

'Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre' ObserverThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .There is a curse. They say: may you live in interesting times.'May you live in interesting times' is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld, especially on the distinctly unmagical Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life and can't even spell wizard. So when a request for a ;Great Wizzard; arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it's the endlessly unlucky Rincewind who's sent as emissary. The oldest (and most heavily fortified) empire on the Disc is in turmoil, and Chaos is building. And, for some incomprehensible reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a mythic role in the ensuing war and wholesale bloodletting. There are too many heroes already in the world, but there is only one Rincewind. And he owes it to the world to keep that one alive for as long as possible.____________________The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Interesting Times is the fifth book in the Wizards series.

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The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 782min

With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their epic journey to become World Series champions. It took 108 years, but it really happened. The Chicago Cubs are once again World Series champions. How did a team composed of unknown young players and supposedly washed-up veterans come together to break the Curse of the Billy Goat? Tom Verducci, twice named National Sportswriter of the Year and cowriter of The Yankee Years with Joe Torre, will have full access to team president Theo Epstein, manager Joe Maddon, and the players to tell the story of the Cubs' transformation from perennial underachievers to the best team in baseball. Beginning with Epstein's first year with the team in 2011, Verducci will show how Epstein went beyond "Moneyball" thinking to turn around the franchise. Leading the organization with a manual called "The Cubs Way", he focused on the mental side of the game as much as the physical, emphasizing chemistry as well as statistics. To accomplish his goal, Epstein needed manager Joe Maddon, an eccentric innovator, as his counterweight on the Cubs' bench. A man who encourages themed road trips and late-arrival game days to loosen up his team, Maddon mixed New Age thinking with Old School leadership to help his players find their edge. The Cubs Way takes listeners behind the scenes, chronicling how key players like Rizzo, Russell, Lester, and Arrieta were deftly brought into the organization by Epstein and coached by Maddon to outperform expectations. Together, Epstein and Maddon proved that clubhouse culture is as important as on-base percentage and that intangible components like personality, vibe, and positive energy are necessary for a team to per ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Verducci. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004986/bk_rand_004986_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Dallas Noir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 589min

Featuring brand-new stories by: Kathleen Kent, Ben Fountain, James Hime, Harry Hunsicker, Matt Bondurant, Merritt Tierce, Daniel J. Hale, Emma Rathbone, Jonathan Woods, Oscar C. Pea, Clay Reynolds, Lauren Davis, Fran Hillyer, Catherine Cuellar, David Haynes, and J. Suzanne Frank. From the introduction by David Hale Smith: My favorite line in my favorite song about Dallas goes like this: Dallas is a rich man with a death wish in his eyes / A steel and concrete soul in a warm heart and love disguise... The narrator of Jimmie Dale Gilmore's perfect tune "Dallas" is coming to town as a broke dreamer with the bright lights of the big city on his mind. He's just seen the Dallas cityscape through the window of his seat on a DC-9 at night. Is he just beginning his quest? Or is he on his way home, flying out of Love Field, reminiscing after seeing the woman who stepped on him when he was down? In a country with so many interesting cities, Dallas is often overlooked except on November 22 every year. The heartbreaking anniversary keeps coming back around in a nightmare loop, for all of us. On that day in 1963, Dallas became American noir. A permanent black scar on its history that will never be erased, no matter how many happy business stories and hit television shows arise from here. In a stark ongoing counterweight to the JFK tragedy are those two iterations of the TV show. Dallas is not a TV show. It's a real city... For the past 40 years, my capacity to be surprised by it has not diminished one bit. I hope the stories in this collection will surprise you too. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Brick, Jennifer Van Dyck, John McLain, Gabra Zackman, Vikas Adam, Stephen Hoye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014634/bk_adbl_014634_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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India: A Portrait , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1032min

A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul. Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain a larger national narrative. Melding on-the-ground reports with a deep knowledge of history, French exposes the cultural foundations of India’s political, economic and social complexities. He reveals how a nation identified with some of the most wretched poverty on earth has simultaneously developed an envied culture of entrepreneurship (here are stories like that of C. K. Ranganathan, who trudged the streets of Cuddalore in the 1980s selling sample packets of shampoo and now employs more than one thousand people). And even more remarkably, French shows how, despite the ancient and persistent traditions of caste, as well as a mind-boggling number of ethnicities and languages, India has nevertheless managed to cohere, evolving into the world’s largest democracy, largely fulfilling Jawaharlal Nehru’s dream of a secular liberal order. French’s inquiry goes to the heart of all the puzzlements that modern India presents: Is this country actually rich or poor? Why has its Muslim population, the second largest on earth, resisted radicalization to such a considerable extent? Why do so many children of Indians who have succeeded in the West want to return “home,” despite never having lived in India? Will India become a natural ally of the West, a geostrategic counterweight to the illiberal rising powers China and Russia? To find the answers, French seeks out an astonishing range of characters: from Maoist revolutionaries to Mafia dons, from chained quarry laborers to self-made b ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Walter Dixon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000601/bk_gdan_000601_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Heart-Mind Matrix: How the Heart Can Teach the Mind New Ways to Think

Activating the compassionate intelligence of the heart to reconnect to the universe and our spiritual future • Shows how the heart is connected to our prefrontal cortex and offers a balancing counterweight to the calculating intellect of the lower brain • Explains how we are stuck in reactive behavior loops resulting from the loss of the nurturing culture of our ancestors • Reveals how the Heart-Mind Matrix connects us to the universe and is the engine of spiritual evolution Expanding the revolutionary theories of mind explored in the bestselling The Crack in the Cosmic Egg and The Biology of Transcendence, Joseph Chilton Pearce explains how the heart provides the balancing intelligence to the brain's calculating intellect, an innate system of emotional-mental coherence lost generations ago through a breakdown of the nurturing culture of our ancestors. By severing ourselves from our heart intelligence, we are left with our selfish, survival-oriented reptilian brains, which create and reinforce "strange loops" between potential and actual reality, leading to our modern world's endless cycle of self-inflicted disasters and societal crises. Pearce explains that in order to break these cycles and transcend a life focused solely on surviving the results of our own reactive patterns, we must reconnect with the compassionate intelligence of the heart. Offering a rich variety of evidence, Pearce explores neurological research, lost and enduring nurturing cultures, personal experiences, and accounts from the lives and writings of modern sages such as Jane Goodall, Maria Montessori, and Rudolf Steiner. He shows that by activating the original matrix of the Heart-Mind--the engine of our spiritual evolution and our innate connection to the universe--we can teach our brains new ways to think, amend our destructive behavior loops, and enter into a future of peace, spiritual connection, and conscious evolution.

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Dreamland

For fans of Children of Men, Years and Years & Station Eleven, a postcard from a future Britain that's closer than we think.'A beautiful book: thought-provoking, eerily prescient and very witty.' Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half'Water courses through its pages, as rising sea levels heighten inequalities, buoy populist politicians and wash away every certainty of civilisation. But there's also the novel's prose - its liquid grace and glinting sparkle - and the sheer irresistibility of a narrative that sweeps along with a force that feels tidal in its pull.' The Observer''You said that you would come back. You looked me in the eye and said that. Well, if you had, this is what you would have seen: soft wood, black cracks, fridges in the road. The broken spines of old rides at Dreamland.'In the coastal resort of Margate, hotels lie empty and sun-faded 'For Sale' signs line the streets. The sea is higher - it's higher everywhere - and those who can are moving inland. A young girl called Chance, however, is just arriving.Chance's family is one of many offered a cash grant to move out of London - and so she, her mother Jas and brother JD relocate to the seaside, just as the country edges towards vertiginous change. In their new home, they find space and wide skies, a world away from the cramped bedsits they've lived in up until now. But challenges swiftly mount. JD's business partner, Kole, has a violent, charismatic energy that whirlpools around him and threatens to draw in the whole family. And when Chance comes across Franky, a girl her age she has never seen before - well-spoken and wearing sunscreen - something catches in the air between them. Their fates are bound: a connection that is immediate, unshakeable, and, in a time when social divides have never cut sharper, dangerous. Set in a future unsettlingly close to home, against a backdrop of soaring inequality and creeping political extremism, Rankin-Gee demonstrates, with cinematic pace and deep humanity, the enduring power of love and hope in a world spinning out of control.'She vividly captures the balance between ferocity and vulnerability as the two girls explore their burgeoning desire; one minute they're greedy for each other, the next they're proceeding more gingerly. Theirs is a great first love, blazing bright and furious amid the poverty and the pain, the perfect counterweight that's needed to make the novel sing. Dreamland brings us face-to-face with much of what we're on the threshold of losing; nevertheless, it manages to convince us that its characters have everything still to live for.' Guardian'A great coming-of-age story, and a warning.' Evening Standard'This brutal read has moments of hope and love but also serves as a hideous warning to fight for what's right' Daily Mail'Brilliantly bleak... this compelling novel is horribly plausible, chilling and feels like a warning that's come too late.' Daily Mirror 'Chance's life is filled with poverty, crime, drugs and fear - until she meets Franky, a girl unlike anyone else she knows. Their relationship brings light and love...' Daily Express'Rankin-Gee's novel is a triumph, being as much a love letter to the heady ups and crashing lows of youthful entanglements as it is a paean to the former grandeur of its stark coastal setting. Read this now.' GQ'A writer of a new time... A writer we will all want to read again and again.' Monique Roffey, author of the Costa Book of The Year The Mermaid of Black Conch "Dazzling and shattering" Nell Dunn, author of Up

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Going Back to Tennessee

Going Back to Tennessee is an 8 song collection of country flavored music. Michael Desselle (The artist formerly known as Molten Mike) has created an intriguing stew of country genres with songs that are sure to please the most discerning country fans. Michael has penned stories that will captivate the imagination. The title track 'Going Back to Tennessee' is an uptempo shuffle about returning to the mountains to see the girl he left behind. The lyric starts with 'She's got a little red pick up truck, she drew a smile on a dixie cup, oh yeah' and the chorus 'I'm Going Back to Tennessee, I've got a girl on top of that mountain I know she's waitin for me, I'm going back to the one I love, She's got the body of a devil but the face, the face of an angel above'. Perfect for line dancing! Track 2 is a tribute to all of our troops. 'Thank a Soldier' is a patriotic song and pays homage to all our soldiers and veterans. This song has been performed live many times and was released as a single in 2010. Audiance response to this song has been incredible. Track 3 'Gas on the Flames' is a protest song that shows the irony of conspiracy theories. This one is very serious and controversial. Track 4 'Low-Tech Redneck' is a hilarious spoof on the buzz words surrounding the computer age. Every line is a laugh and the song serves as a powerful counterweight to Track 3. Track 5 is a beautiful Country Wedding Waltz with warm lyrics and excellent back up harmonies. A great love song. Track 6 is an uptempo Country- Rock song about Cowgirls another good line dance tune and one the girls should love. Track 7 is a break-up love song that tells an inteeresting tale of third party influence. Track 8 is a Bluegrass, Porch Music song that extols the virtues of 'That old time music, It never gets Old' The instrumentation is diverse on the album and the players read like a who's who of Bay Area Country musicians. Michael is on every cut playing Accoustic guitar. Sprinkled throughout the album are the stylings of Ace recording artist Kenny K on Pedal Steel, Electric Guitar, and Dobro. Canadian 'Fiddler John' Richard brings the unmistakeable country fildlle lines, National Award winner Billy Sandlin is on Banjo, Recording artist Glenn Stevenson is on Stand up and Electric Bass, Bill 'Julio' Barrett is on Piano, along with Glenn Laubaugh on Piano and String Synthesizer, Randall Ierna is on percussion, Ralph Famiglietti is on Mandolin and Back up vocals are by April Yerger and Linda Carmichael. The production and mix of this CD are excellent. The vocals are clear and crisp and The CD includes the words for all the songs. 'Going Back To Tennessee'' is Michael Desselle's 6th full length disc. His previous CD's have all tracked to #1 on MP3tunes and Michael has received 12 awards and nominations including best singer/songwriter, best guitarist and best entertainer.

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